Sosthenes

Sosthenes was one of the Seventy Disciples of the early Christian Church. During the governorship of the Roman senator Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus in Corinth, Sosthenes - the ruler of the local synagogue - was beaten by a mob after refusing to proceed against Paul the Apostle at his trial. He later co-authored 1 Corinthians, and he became Bishop of Colophon in Asia Minor; Tychicus succeeded him.